A prudent person foresees evil and hides himself, but the simple pass on and suffer -- Proverbs 22:3

Friday, July 8, 2016

Again, on the Streets of Dallas

I’ve been to the old Schoolbook Depository in
Dallas and looked out the window from which, we are told, Oswald shot
Kennedy.I have walked around Dealey Plaza
and up on the Grassy Knoll.Hundreds of
times, I have driven by downtown Dallas, only occasionally recalling the tragedy
that was acted out there.

There was more tragedy on those streets last night.I am saddened by the loss of life.I pray for the families of the fallen
officers and for those who were injured.

I support the police in general.That is, as agents of law and order, they are
agents of civilization.I support
that.I have been helped by the police a
few times.I have been harassed a time
or two as well.I like some individual
law enforcement officers – I’ve even been friends with a few.I don’t like the direction law enforcement
has taken in this country.

I don’t like a militarized police, police as an occupation
force, or police referring to the rest of us as “civilians”.Police officers are paid, in my opinion, to
put themselves in harm’s way and to take risks that the rest of us do not routinely
have to take.For that, they should be
respected.They should also be held to a
higher standard of behavior than the ordinary citizen.A police officer who shoots a person who is
not a threat deserves to be severely punished.

There were something over five hundred individuals shot and
killed by police officers last year.Roughly half those killed were white.I would guess that a very high percentage of the shooting were
completely and unequivocally justified.Based on what I have seen of the Minnesota shooting, that one was not
justified.The police officer who pulled
the trigger four times on Philando Castile is a murderer.

People of all races have a right to be angry about that
shooting and probably about some of the others that have taken place.If we don’t put a stop to this, the cops will
become little more than uniformed gangs.We have a police-prison complex that feeds parasitically off taxpayer
dollars, requiring a bigger fix every year to keep the public “safe”.Much of the “criminal” problem comes from
Prohibition-style drug laws.The more
things that are made illegal, the more criminals there will be.

A bad man dressed in a police officer’s uniform did a bad
thing in a Minneapolis suburb.It’s
possible a bad man in a uniform did a bad thing down in Baton Rouge.Those individuals should be held accountable
for their actions as individuals.Evil
can be given no excuse, and truth and justice should not be obscured by the
color of one’s skin or the color of one’s clothes.

Yet the divide our national leaders want to make is
racial.Obama has, time and again, sided
with his tribe against whites.The media
and the political establishment have played up the acts of police officers in New
York, Ferguson, Baltimore and other places – not necessarily because those acts
were always unjustified, but because the people killed had dark skin.Instead of having a discussion about and
reform of police attitudes and procedures, they want to have a race war.

I am old enough to remember November 22, 1963.I am also old enough to remember 1964, 1965,
1967, Harlem, Newark, Watts, and Detroit.It is liable to get a lot worse, and, in my lifetime, it may never get
better.

Do I have an answer? Long-term, yes, I do.Tell the truth.People are different.They are different based on genetics as well
as environment.If we stop denying this
and admit that we tend to get along better with those more like ourselves in
various ways, we could go a long way to eliminating the tensions and conflicts
of multiculturalism.A more homogeneous
society is a more peaceful society.The
globalists are wrong; the nationalists are right.Stop wasting money trying to turn people with
an average IQ of 89 into rocket scientists.Stop turning young men into criminals through drug prohibition. Stop
training paramilitary law enforcement officers and start training peace officers.Give people local control of their own
destinies.Get rid of welfare and centralized,
big government interference in peoples’ lives.

Short-term, no.More
blood is going to be shed, and it is going to be on the hands of those fomenting
the Black Lives Matter agit-prop.

Quotables

The true Christian should not resign himself to the inevitable: he should trust in the impertinence of a repeated prayer. -- Don Colacho

Political tags — such as royalist, communist, democrat, populist, fascist, liberal, conservative, and so forth — are never basic criteria. The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire. The former are idealists acting from highest motives for the greatest good of the greatest number. The latter are surly curmudgeons, suspicious and lacking in altruism. But they are more comfortable neighbors than the other sort. -- Robert A. Heinlein

When law and morality are in contradiction, the citizen finds himself in the cruel dilemma of either losing his moral sense or of losing respect for the law -- Bastiat

The tank, the B-52, the fighter-bomber, the state-controlled police and military are the weapons of dictatorship. The rifle is the weapon of democracy.

If guns are outlawed, only the government will have guns. Only the police, the secret police, the military. The hired servants of our rulers.

Only the government -- and a few outlaws.

I intend to be among the outlaws.--Edward Abbey from “The Right to Arms”

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